An overview of spacecraft power system design trends, focusing on higher power bus voltages and improved energy storage systems, is followed by a discussion of bipolar Ni/H2 battery development efforts. Several 10-cell batteries and on 50-cell battery are described, and performance results are presented. A comparison of individual-pressure-vessel and bipolar Ni/H2 technologies is used to suggest a new direction for bipolar Ni/H2 battery development efforts, toward a large number of passively cooled cells in parallel.
Bipolar nickel-hydrogen battery development-a program review
Programmüberblick zur Entwicklung von bipolaren Nickel-Wasserstoff-Batterien
1989
6 Seiten, 21 Quellen
Conference paper
English
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